Improvement in cockle and garlic-separator



NEAL L TRUXELL.

` Seed Separator.

Patented Oct. 20, 1868.

Mnesses:

J. W.'NEAL AND A( J. TRUXELL, OF BIG LICK,VIRGINIA.l

Letters Patent No. 83,198, dated October" 20, 1868; antedated October 9,1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN COCKLE AND GRLIC-SEPARATO.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all 'whom it may concern Be it-known that we, J. W. NEAL and A. J.TRUX- ELL, of Big Lick, in the county of Roanoke, and in the State ofVirginia, have invented certain new auduseful Improvements in Cockle andGarlic-Separator; and do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon.

In thefannexed drawings, making a part of this specicationL- K Arepresents a frame, of any suitable form and size, and made of anydesired material, and B B represent cylinders or rollers, adjusted orsecured, and working in said frame A.

The cylinders B B are adjusted at any angle desired, and are so arrangedthat theA lower ends may be adjusted so as to give a greater or lessinclination to said cylinders, to suit the kind of grain to be cleaned,and to correspond with the quantity of dirt or cockle and garlic in thegrain. If a small amount of refuse substance be among the grain, agreater inclination should be given the cylinders.

These cylinders are provided with or have holes or recesses along theirsides, as shown, into which the cockle and garlic will fall and becaught, while the grain will slide down the inclination, and between thecylinders, and out at the spout D. y

Attached to one end of one of the cylinders B is a crank, by which saidcylinder is turned, and the other may be turned by the friction, or byany suitable device.

Any power may be applied to this machine, to drive it, that maybedesired or most convenient. One cylinder, with an inclined platform,may be used, instead of two cylinders, and any number of pairs ofcylinders may be 'used in or combined with this machine.

C represents a suitable hopper, which is 'provided with an arm, whichhooks in the loops h on the frame, and is thereby secured in place. Themouth of the hopper G is placed directly over or between the sides ofthe cylinders B B.

By pouring grain, mixed with cockle or garlic, or both, into the hopperC, and turning the cylinders B B by means of the crank or otherwise, thegrain slides down the inclination, and out at the spout D, while theforeign matter is caught in the recesses x, and carried over and thrownout under said cylinders, in a trough or boxfor that purpose.

We do not claim broadly the arrangement of lcylini ders in an inclinedmanner, when provided withcells to retain the grain for the purpose ofseparating large and small grain, such as wheat from oats.

Our cylinders are covered Awith sheet-meta1 that is provided withperforations, as described, so as to allow the cockle to catch in thespaces, and the grain to pass down between'the two cylinders, and outthe ,spout at the end. These cylinders are arranged obliquely for theabovepurposes.

The above-described deviceis constructed as-an improvement upon thecockle,I garlic, and smutfseparator, granted to the within-named J. W.NEAL, on the 16th vday of July, 1867.

Havingthus-fully described our invention,

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement of the cylinders B B, having perforated metal faces,upon the frame A, in--such a manner that one end of each cylinder iselevated above the other, so that the grain will pass from the hopper Cdown in between the cylinders, and pass down the inclined plane thusformed, all constructed and Aused as speciied.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing, we have hereunto set ourhands, this 30th day of January, 1868.

J. W. NEAL.

A. J. TBUXELL.

Witnesses: I

DEwI'r'r O. BOOTH, A. P. NEAL.

